Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Togo and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Janne Schatter to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Marshall Jefferson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
U.S. Maple,
Little Man,
Subhumans,
The Dead C,
Joe Smooth,
Lee Hazlewood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Duran Duran,
Warren Ellis,
Alphaville,
Stereo Dub,
China Crisis,
Eddi Front,
Eden Ahbez,
Crispian St. Peters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Angels of Light,
Can,
Neu!,
Ituana,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Peter and Kerry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Moody Blues,
D'Angelo,
The Fire Engines,
Marc Almond,
Nils Olav,
Mars,
Gabor Szabo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bluetip,
Glenn Branca,
Main Source,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Drive Like Jehu,
Brand Nubian,
X-102,
The Offenders,
Sällskapet,
Skaos,
Easy Going,
Interpol,
Ultravox,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Yazoo,
The Gladiators,
Eve St. Jones,
Clear Light,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fela Kuti,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.